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Government Dam - Grangeville

Government Dam
Government Gums
Government Well
Goyder
Grace
Graeber
Graham
Grainger, Mount
Grand Junction
Grange
Grangeville

Government Dam

Nomenclature

A post office near Port Pirie opened in March 1876; it was renamed 'Napperby' in November 1876. In the 1870s the location was described as '7 miles from Port Pirie on the railway'. This settlement grew up during the construction of the Gladstone-Port Pirie railway and even boasted of a hotel called 'The Reservoir' - it lay a little west of modern-day 'Warnertown'.

General Notes

This settlement grew up during the construction of the Gladstone-Port Pirie railway and even boasted of a hotel called "The Reservoir" - it lay a little west of modern-day "Warnertown". It is described in the Register,
26 September 1874, page 6f.
Also see Nancy Robinson, Reluctant Harbour, page 135 and
Register,
25 March 1873, page 5d.

A proposed school at Willow Creek is discussed in the Chronicle,
29 July 1876, page 4f.

The Register of 15 May 1877, page 6c has a complaint from a resident in respect of naming the settlement "Napperby":

Much indignation is felt here at the name of our place being taken away and given to a township eight miles away. When the post office here was first opened it was called Government Dam, but at a public meeting... a resolution was passed to alter it to Napperby...

A controversy over supplying water from the dam is reported in the Register,
22 December 1877, page 5d; also see
24 January 1878, pages 5d-6c.
Also see South Australia - Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters - Water, Artesian Wells and Springs.

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Government Gums

Also see Place Names - Farina.

A proposed telegraph station is discussed in the Chronicle, 21 October 1876, page 4e:

In October 1876 a deputation asked that a telegraph station should be opened at the Government Gums and that a portion of the district be allotted as a township so that a post office might be erected there... At the Government Gums there were two important waterholes which required improvement such as fencing in...

Also see South Australia - Communications - Telegraphic.

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Place Names

Government Well

Information on the school "12 miles away from Bagot's Well" is in the Advertiser,
29 November 1870, page 3e:

The need for a school was put forward by Henry Pyman in November 1870 because the nearest was at Bagot's Well, some 12 miles away...

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Place Names

Goyder

Nomenclature

George Woodroffe Goyder was Surveyor-General from 1861 to 1894. Born in Lancashire in 1826, he arrived overland from Victoria in 1851 when he was employed in the Colonial Engineer's office and by 1858 was Deputy Surveyor-General and on the retirement of Col A.H. Freeling as Surveyor-General in 1861, he took over that position. He often went out with exploring parties and spent much time with his survey staff in the Northern Territory. His name is best remembered for his work in delineating a line of rainfall which indicates the 'safe' area for agriculture. He died at Mylor in 1898.

General Notes

Also see South Australia Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters - Comments on Goyder's Line.

The Observer of 10 December 1864, page 3b (supp.) says:

When Goyder is in favour of high valuations then Goyder is a little wonder; but when he recommends anything which does not accord with the creed of his worshippers then his recommendations are not to be trusted. Like the Mumbo Jumbo of the fanatics, he must then be reviled because he has not prophesied correctly. Our readers will have seen an example in reference to the declaration of two more hundreds...

Goyder Plains School existed from 1881 until 1884. See
Observer, 7 March 1891, page 39d for information on a Hundred of Goyder School.

Mrs Goyder's obituary is in the Express,
1870, page 2d.
Biographical details of his life and times in South Australia are in the Register,
28 November 1882, page 4g;
also see Register,
14 December 1893, pages 4g-6a,
Observer,
16 December 1893, page 32c,
17 February 1894, page 16a,
14 July 1894, pages 25b-31d,
Chronicle,
10 February 1894, page 23c,
Advertiser,
4 November 1898, page 4f (obit).

Photographs of members of the Goyder Survey Expedition of 1868-1869 are in the Observer,
17 February 1906, page 28.

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Place Names

Grace

Nomenclature

The Hundred of Grace was named by Governor MacDonnell after Grace M. Farrell, wife of the Dean of Adelaide; the name was later adopted for Grace Town, surveyed as a Government town on section 4, Hundred of Grace in April 1874.

General Notes

The opening of the Grace Plains Primitive Methodist Chapel is reported in the Register,
10 June 1865, page 2d; also see
Chronicle,
1 July 1865, page 3a.

The diamond jubilee of "the old church" is reported in the Register,
25 September 1928, page 3f.
Photographs are in the Chronicle,
16 July 1910, page 31,
Observer,
2 November 1918, page 24.
A jubilee is reported in the Observer,
2 November 1918, pages 12d-24 (photos).

The Hundred of Grace School opened in 1878 and closed in 1880.
Grace Plains School opened in 1866 in the Methodist Church and closed in 1968, while
Grace Plains North School operated from 1873 until circa 1874.
Examinations are reported in the Register, 23 September 1867, page 3g:

The 16 September 1867 was the anniversary of the opening of the day school held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel. The children were examined by Mr. William Storr of Port Gawler... The subscription, with the proceeds from the tea meeting, was sufficient to pay the interest upon the debt still due on the teacher's residence, etc. This debt has hitherto been a great drawback and we rejoice that means has at last been found to wipe it out....

"A Defaulting District Clerk" is in the Register,
9 May 1883, page 5c.

Under the heading "How the District Council of Grace Spends its Rates" a ratepayer expresses the wish that:

Register

Also see South Australia - Miscellany - Local Government.

Floods in the Hundred are described in the Register,
4 April 1889, page 6c.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Floods.

"In the Hundred of Grace - The District and Towns" is in the Advertiser,
16 February 1910, page 9f.

An obituary of Charles March is in the Register, 9 March 1921, page 8f, Observer, 5 March 1921, page 23a.

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Place Names

Graeber

The Register of 13 February 1913 at page 6g says:

The siding which the railway authorities named Graeber and opened in November last, between Parilla and Lameroo, has been renamed and in future the place will be known as Toora.

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Place Names

Graham

The Mount Graham School opened as the "Hundred of Riddoch" in 1916.

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Place Names

Grainger, Mount

Nomenclature

Near Nectar Brook. John Grainger who, with A.L. Elder, sailed on the Yatala in 1852 to the head of Spencer Gulf.

General Notes

Also see South Australia - Mining - Gold.

Near Oodlawirra. Its gold mine is described in the Register,
16 October 1895, page 6d,
29 May 1900, page 3g,
23 July 1901, page 6i,
6 July 1909, page 4g.
Photographs are in the Chronicle,
10 October 1929, page 35.

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Place Names

Grand Junction

Nomenclature

A post office near Wingfield which operated from 1858 to April 1883. The Register of 6 September 1851 at page 3e mentions a proposal for the "Grand Junction Canal" between Adelaide and the North Arm:

Some of our plodding citizens were yesterday startled by the private exhibition of ?A Bird's Eye View of the Country Between Adelaide and the North Arm?, showing the proposed Grand Junction Canal. The artist is Mr. Edward Snell and although he has drawn freely upon his imagination in portraying possible improvements and prospective traffic, there is a decided truthfulness in his deductions of those natural features which so frequently render the harbour of Port Adelaide the object of eulogistic description or warm discussion. The design is most spirited, but the cost, we suspect, will not be trifling, although the nature of the country is favourable for the canalisation and the railway system proposed to be introduced.

General Notes

Parliamentary Paper 18/1861 lists a "Grand Junction School" of 26 pupils being taught by Thomas Sweetman. It opened in 1855 and historical information on it is in the Advertiser, 28 June 1870, page 3b.

The Grand Junction Road is described in the Observer,
2 March 1867, page 3g (supp.),
Register of
4 March 1868, page 2h:

Has it ever been your misfortune to travel over the Grand Junction Road. If so, you will have a lively recollection of a struggle through about a quarter of a mile of deep sand within a mile of the Port...

A local horse race meeting is reported in the Register, 9 December 1873, page 5c.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.

"Fearful Fatality" is in the Chronicle,
25 April 1896, page 20a,
Observer,
25 April 1896, page 28c.

The Observer of 26 June 1909 prints an extract from the Register of 22 June 1859: "Grand Junction Station [will] be closed after Saturday, July 2 and the gatekeeper and gates will be removed."

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Place Names

Grange

Nomenclature

The subdivision was originally named The Grange after Captain Sturt's cottage which was built prior to September 1841 because he mortgaged the property at that time and the relevant memorial states: 'Together with dwelling house, erected, built and standing'.

Grange - Estcourt House

Information on Estcourt House is in the Register,
1 September 1894, page 5h,
Observer,
8 September 1894, page 43d;
a history is in the Register,
11 December 1894, page 6b.

"Estcourt House - A Casual Visit" is in the Advertiser,
3 January 1895, page 8a;
it is described in the Register on
16 October 1895, page 5c,
17 January 1900, page 10c.

Also see Place Names - Southend.

F.E. Bucknall's plans for a canal through section 105 to connect the river with the sea coast is discussed in the Register,
22 October 1880, page 5b,
1 January 1881, page 6b; also see
Register,
15 September 1917, page 5f.

An obituary of Frederick Estcourt Bucknall appears in the Register on 5 June 1896, page 5e;
also see 17 January 1900, page 10c, 13 May 1905, page 5h, 29 October 1906, page 3f, 23 February 1922, page 6e,
Express,10 September 1902, page 1g,
Advertiser, 17 December 1923, page 11a.
An obituary of Dr Kendray Archer is in the Register, 2 August 1899, page 5d.

Information on the house is in the Register,
25 January 1905, page 6g,
13 February 1905, page 3h.

A concert at Estcourt House is reported upon in the Register,
5 August 1907, page 9c.

"Work at Estcourt House" is in The Mail,
23 October 1920, page 2g; also see
Register,
15 December 1921, page 3i,
The News,
6 September 1927, page 8d.
"Nursing Children Back to Health - Humane Work Performed at Estcourt House" is in The Mail,
30 June 1928, page 11c.

The Trials and Tribulations of Frederick Estcourt Bucknall

(Taken from Geoffrey H. Manning,The Grange Golf Club, pp. 29 - 30 and 36-38.)

Following his arrival in South Australia, and with no apparent profession or training, it has been suggested that he relied on financial support from his father in England. Over the period 1860 to 1869 he lived at Port Adelaide where he did much to encourage an interest in boating activities and founded the South Australian Rowing Club. He built a boat shed near the site of the Jervois Bridge that, in time, became the headquarters of the Port Adelaide Yacht Club.

Due, primarily, to his exertions a strong revival of rowing occurred at Port Adelaide; further, he was a first-rate swimmer and "a great advocate for the widespread teaching of that useful art." He was also adept in "the noble art of self-defenbce."

In the late 1860s he was co-proprietor of the South Australian Boating Company at Port Adelaide that operated 'from an ancient malthouse in Grey Street"; it was there that boats were manufactured and destined for aquatic events on the River Torrens.

In 1869 he converted this shed into the Australian Club House Hotel and managed it for five years; it was known locally as "The Kerosine Tin" because its outer shell was galvanised iron.

The River Torrens venture promised a handsome return but, unfortunately, after the first dam was built the fleet of boats he placed on the river were washed away during a flood.

In 1874 his fortunes changed dramatically when he married Rosa Haussen (nee Catchlove), the widow of a well-known brewer, Henry H. Haussen. His wife brought with her to the marriage a sum of money reputed to be in the vicinity of £40,000 , together with nine children. The money did not last long and twelve years later Bucknall was in serious financial difficulties from which he never recovered. Today, the evidence of some of his liberal expenditure is still evident in the Grange district.

He gave financial support to the subdividers of the village of Grange and built Estcourt House at a cost of at least£12,000, as an adjunct to his canal and harbour plan; it was here he entertained on a lavish scale. He subsidised the building of the marine residences at the Grange, which are believed to have cost £20,000, as a housing project for the men working for the Wharf and Land Company (they stand today on the seafront about 100 yards north of the Grange Hotel) and in April 1877 he purchased section 903 from George Serle - today the West Course of the Grange Golf Club graces this land. There is also evidence that he provided funds to the syndicate that laid out the township of Henley Beach in 1877, namely, Arthur Harvey, Henry S. Anthony and William P. Wicksteed.

However, he was not entirely dependent on his wife's fortune for, following his marriage, he entered the brewing firm of Haussen and Company:

The minutes of the Hindmarsh District Council from 1881 to 1883, during which he was mayor... confirm this view of him. He was most energrtic in council matters and throughot these three years the meetings, under his chairmanship, were most harmonious and he was obviously popular.

While the records of his participation in both the Wharf and Land Company and the subdividing of the Grange township are not extant, the available evidence leaves no doubt that he had been heavily committed financially to those undertakings. There is documentation of his close association with Arthur Harvey, for when he was in England in 1886 a letter as received from that gentleman containing a most naive proposal.

After telling Bucknall that both the Grange Land and Investment and the Wharf and Land Company were in difficulties and would have to go into liquidation if no help were forthcoming, he offered to sell all the assets of the latter company for £15,000! This letter also stated that "the marine residences are in a fix."

The voyage to England was ostensibly for the purpose of raising money to further the canal scheme, but shortly after his arrival news reached him of the depression that had struck the colony causing many insolvencies which, coupled with recurrent droughts and the failure of The Commercial Bank of South Australia, led to wide-spread unemployment and misery within the working classes. Bucknall returned immediately to find himself a ruined man. He remaimed at Estcourt House until 1888 when he had to abandon it and retire to North Adelaide, where he died on 4 June 1896.

Estcourt House, perched on the highest part of the sandhills, continued to stand in lonely splendour and remained empty until 1894, being known as "Bucknall's Folly"; in that year it was purchased for £3,000 by the James Brown Memorial Trust as a home for aged blind persons and crippled children.

Wharf and Land Company, Port Adelaide South Ltd

As the 1870s came to an end, and with prosperity temporarily abroad in the community, a meeting of some capitalists hatched up a grandiose plan in respect of several sections of land in the Hundred of Yatala fronting the eastern bank of the Port River to the south of Semaphore...

On 26 June 1878 a prospectus of the Wharf and Land Company, Port Adelaide South Ltd appeared in the local press and among its aims were the construction of a wharf on Section 929, deepening the river and making approaches to it and laying out adjoining allotments. At a later date it was proposed to construct a graving dock and patent slip, to connect the site with Adelaide by rail and cut a canal to the sea and form an entrance for ships. The company proposed to issue 30,000 shares at £3 each and, of special interst was the fact that two of its directors were David Murray and John Brodie Spence, while its secretary was Arthur Harvey...

To further their cause, and possibly with community service in mind, when "the failure of the plan, the company's prosperity and his own had become dismally obvious", Frederick Bucknall, a silent partner in the grandiose wharf scheme, entered parliament in 1881, where he served for three years. Mr Harvey did likewise from 1884 to 1887, both gentlemen representing the electorate of West Torrens. Interestingly, the author of Bucknall's unpublished autibiography startes unreservedly: "One wonders whether his parliamentary career had in it something of self-interest." There appears to have been very little interest in the company's scheme and when it was wound up in 1886, the number of unsold acres was the same number as the total number quoted in the prospectus.

Grange - Miscellany

Information on the "Grange Township" and sale of allotments is in the Express,
24 June 1878, page 2c,
Register,
24 June 1878, page 5d.

A comprehensive description of the town is in the Register,
14 September 1878 (supp.), page 2e and
8 May 1879, page 5f; also see
1 and 2 October 1879, pages 7a and 4g,
3 April 1890, page 7f,
29 January 1927, page 9 and
Advertiser,
25, 26 and 30 September 1879, pages 4d, 7c and 7b.

"Works at the Grange" is in the Observer,
23 August 1879, page 13e,
27 September 1879, page 12f.
"The Grange Job", a parliamentary examination of a petition from three land speculators, is in the Register,
26 September 1879, page 4d,
Chronicle,
27 September 1879, page 5b; also see
Express,
25 and 26 September 1879, pages 3d and 3e,
2 October 1879, page 3b.

Information on the jetty is in the Register,
9 August 1882, page 5b.

A State school picnic for city students is reported in the Advertiser,
16 December 1882, page 6b.

A horse-race meeting is reported in the Register,
27 December 1882, page 6d; also see
31 December 1883, page 6g,
29, 30 and 31 December 1884, pages 7a, 7g and 7d,
Express,
31 January 1887, page 2e.
Register
31 December 1888, page 7c,
Advertiser,
31 January 1887, page 5e,
Express,
28 August 1891, page 4b,
Chronicle,
26 December 1891, page 14f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.

The flooding of the River Torrens and the silting-up of the port River is discussed in the Register,
23 August 1883, page 7c.

A meeting of The Grange Railway and Investment Company is reported upon in the Register on
27 October 1885, page 5a; also see
21 April 1886, page 5d,
10, 14 and 20 July 1886, pages 6g, 7c and 5c,
Advertiser,
10 July 1886, page 6a,
Register,
7 June 1887, page 5b.
Also see Adelaide - Transport - Railways.

Information on the Grange Land & Investment Company is in the Observer,
10 May 1884, page 33e.

A proposed telegraph office is discussed in the Express,
17 February 1886, page 5e.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telegraphic.

Housing on the Esplanade is described in the Observer,
18 February 1888, page 33d.
The sanitary condition of houses on the Esplanade is discussed in the Chronicle,
18 February 1888, page 9c.

A market gardeners' picnic is reported in the Register,
17 November 1882, page 6c.

A mock attack on the city of Adelaide and "the sounds of seeming strife" which disturbed local residents is reported in the Register,
8 September 1884, page 6e; also see
16 November 1897, page 7d,
"SA Invaded - Enemy Land at Grange" on
31 March 1902, page 7f.
Also see South Australia - Defence of the Colony.

In September 1894 (sic) the peaceful inhabitants of Grange "and especially a few residents near that dismal region of sand, swamp and teatree", that comprises part of the modern-day Grange Golf Club land, were surprised by the "sudden sounds of seeming strife that disturbed the serenity of those solitudes on a Saturday night."

The rattle of rifle fire and the heavy booms of 68-pounders from Fort Glanville coupled, with the men shouting, and the "indications of a sharp struggle going on between two opposing forces contending for the possesion of the ford and bridge" across the Port River at Grange, a little to the south of the modern-day 14th green of the West Course, "made not a bad imitation of a real conflict..., but the good folk of the seaboard are getting accustomed to such alarms, all ending in smoke and newspaper glory."

(Taken from Geoffrey H. Manning. A History of the Grange Golf Club, page 28.)

Proposed telephonic communication with Adelaide is discussed in the Register,
19 February 1886, page 6g,
Advertiser,
19 February 1886, page 7f.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telephones.

A field naturalists' excursion is reported in the Register,
12 July 1887, page 7f,
25 April 1893, page 5c,
19 May 1896, page 7f,
26 June 1899, page 2h,
22 May 1900 page 3b,
1 September 1924, page 10e,
9 August 1927, page 7g.

A letter in respect of a local corroboree is in the Advertiser, 12 March 1898, page 8d:

The Grange corroboree was not [performed] without a great deal of persuasion... Four men and four women were induced to quit their luxurious habitations and corroboree on the beach. It was only then effected by the final efforts of a well-known and highly respected local resident, Mr. J.T. McLean, who caused much merriment amongst the blacks, and enthusiastic applause from the assembled crowd, by very gravely escorting a bewitching black damsel of not less than 50 summers (hanging heavily on his arm) from her dressing room door (wurley) to the scene of festivities. Her attendant cavalier, however, refrained from soliciting the honour of Th. first dance with her. ?Mary? was therefore doomed as a wallflower. No warpaint or other decorations were indulged in, apparently from laziness on the part of the blacks, although the necessary materials had been supplied to them, the performance otherwise was creditable. Several difficult and graceful dances were gone through.

The opening of the Grange Hall is reported in the Express,
19 December 1898, page 3f; also see
18 February 1901, page 4c.

"Military Field Day" is in the Chronicle,
10 November 1900, page 33e.
Also see South Australia - Defence of the Colony.

"The Cape to Grange Cable" is in the Observer, 23 February 1901, page 31a:

A hitch has occurred in connection with the proposal of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company to have a receiving station at Grange. It is now suggested that the cable should be brought right on to Adelaide. In either case, however, the line will land at the Grange. The company was granted a reserve on the spot for the purpose of erecting buildings and spent £1,000 in preparing the ground for structures. Plans were sent to England but they did not meet with the approval of the board of directors and fresh designs were prepared and sent home. Information has since been received that the directors are considering whether the receiving station should be at the Grange or at the General Post Office. In the latter case a landing house will be put up in the sandhills...

The removal of sandhills between the beach and Military Road is reported in The Herald,
16 August 1902, page 5b,
Register,
23 August 1902, page 4h and
an informative letter on the subject appears on
2 March 1903, page 6b; also see
17 November 1906, page 4i and Port Adelaide - Military Road.
"Ramble Over the Dunes" is in the Advertiser,
2 June 1911, page 11g.
For an essay on the sand dunes see under Adelaide - Beaches and Bathing.

Biographical details of Thomas S. Reed are in the Register,
23 May 1904, page 5g.

The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs G.C. Cole is reported in the Register,
24 December 1907, page 5c.

A photograph titled "Backwater of the Torrens" is in the Chronicle,
25 February 1905, page 27.

Under the heading "Cruelty to Animals" a 5 mile point-to-point steeplechase is described in the Register,
27 July 1905, page 7g; also see
29 August 1905, page 6g.

The grounding of the barque Lochee is reported in the Express,
8 February 1906, page 4d.

A proposal for electric lighting is discussed in the Register,
12 November 1908, page 6e.
Also see Adelaide - Lighting the City and Homes.

Plans to enlarge the Institute are discussed in the Register,
23 February 1909, page 4h and
for a proposed recreation ground on
1 and 15 March 1909, pages 4e and 4f.

Information on postal facilities is in the Express,
30 March 1909, page 1g.

"Conveniences for Grange" is in the Register, 24 April 1909, page 9c.

Information on boy scouts is in the Register,
29 October 1909, page 7b,
9 December 1909, page 4i.
Also see Adelaide - Boy Scouts.

"Sunday's Meteorite at the Grange" is in the Advertiser,
13 December 1910, page 8f.

"Capt. Sturt's Homestead" is in the Express,
9 February 1895, page 3c (sketch),
Observer,
29 November 1902, page 26 (photos.),
The Mail,
22 January 1927, page 3d.
A proposal for it to be purchased by the council appears on
8 September 1928, page 19c; also see
The Mail,
20 October 1928, page 12f,
Advertiser,
9 April 1929, page 12f,
11 July 1929, page 15d.
"Historic Home Ruined by Vandals" is in The Mail,
12 July 1930, page 25.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
9 January 1930, page 47.
Also see Sturt.

"Fire at the Grange" is in the Register,
5 November 1912, page 7a and
the second meeting of the Grange Progressive Association on
14 March 1914, page 18g.

"Four Men in Danger - One Drowned" is in the Express,
10 February 1913, page 4d; also see
8 March 1913, page 2h.

The formation of a corporation is reported in the Register,
19 June 1914, page 11e.
See Place Names - Henley Beach.

"An Angler's Appeal" is in the Register,
18 January 1915, page 3h.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Fishing.

The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs Jesse Cumming is reported in the Register,
21 December 1915, page 4g,
Observer, 25 December 1915, page 22c.

A patriotic carnival is reported in the Observer,
1 January 1916, pages 22e-30 (photos).

Photographs of a carnival are in the Observer,
1 January 1916, page 30,
of the bowling green and clubhouse in the Chronicle,
28 October 1916, page 30,
of Mr L.F. Bawden, a maker of violins, in the Observer,
6 march 1920, page 26.

"Seaside Pleasure Resort" is in the Register,
18 May 1915, page 11f.

"After the Flood" is in the Register,
24, 25 and 31 July 1917, pages 4g, 7b and 4c,
4 August 1917, page 5b; also see
16 March 1918, page 4f,
16 September 1922, page 13g,
9 June 1923, page 13a,
22 September 1923, page 7a,
26 October 1926, page 10e,
3 June 1927, page 8f.
"A Disastrous Flood" is in The Mail,
21 July 1917, page 7e.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Floods.

The destruction of trees within The Pinery is reported in the Register,
27 December 1898, page 4h.
The area subject to flooding between Grange and Portland Estate is described in The Mail,
14 July 1917, page 7d.
Register,
27 April 1917, page 8g,
28 June 1917, page 7d,
3 and 21 July 1917, pages 5c and 7b,
15 and 16 August 1917, pages 6h and 4h,
1, 7, 8 and 15 September 1917, pages 10a, 5e, 7e and 5f,
Observer,
15 September 1917, page 19a,
13 October 1917, page 19a.
Also see Place Names - Kings Town.

Photographs and information on the Pinery enquiry is in the Observer,
28 July 1917, page 23,
15 September 1917, page 19a,
"The Grange and the Pinery" is in the Register,
13 June 1924, page 13b.
Also see Alberton.

Extracts from the prospectus of the "Pinery Land and Wharf Company" are in the Register, 12 January 1918, page 4e.

The Pinery

(Taken from Geoffrey H. Manning, The Grange Golf Club, pp. 39 - 47)

In the 1920s the land between Alberton and Grange was known as "The Pinery". It consisted of "a sandy, slughtly raised ridge, a consolidated sand dune, stretching several miles, close to the east bank of the Port River. It has very interesting flora and fauna and contains a few plants which are rare..." The author of these words went on to describe the many species of shrubs and grasses on "The Pinery" that included drooping sheaoak, silver banksia, black tea tree, South Australian blue gum and native pine; middle canopy shrubs included quandong, golden wattle, umbrella bush, kangaroo thorn, boobialla and hop bush.

He pointed out that the Royal Adelaide Golf Club at Seaton was partly situated on these consolidated sand dunes, although a little to the east of the area he had described. He went on:

Today, portion of "The Pinery" is the site of the Grange Golf Club while, from the 1970s onward, the remainder was swallowed up by suburbia in the form of the up-market suburb of West Lakes.

Much of the original vegetation still grows on the courses; the area now known locally as "The Pinery" (the fenced area between the 11th and 12th holes, East Course and the rough between the 1st hole, West Course, and 16th hole, East Course, still preserves fine stands of these natives, as does the rough on the north side of the 12th hole, East Course. However, there are only three black tea trees remaining, the largest standing at the rear of the 1st green, West Course, and only two kangaroo thorn bushes. The greatest loss has been amongst the lower layer shrubs and ground-cover species.

Nevertheless, an intersting variety still remains, including one species of bluebell, two species of Guinea flower, paper flower, common everlasting, black-anther flax lily, a chocolate lily, muntries (one of the edible Australian fruits), running postman and a character plant of the area, holly-leaved grevillea. There are also four species of saltbush, two of bluebush and samphire (indicative of saline soils) and five species of native grasses.

Of all the sand belt courses, Grange now preserves the largest representation of plants that once grew on these red sand dunes. Its status is even greater when it is realised that no conservation parks are located on any portion of these ancient bastions. This is only a handful of locations in the Adelaide region where remnants of pre-European settlement vegetation can be found.

Bird life is also dependent on the vegetation and, during the period, 1992-1995, forty-eight species were recorded on the course. Of particular note are the breeding populations of white-browed babblers (there are only two other isolated breeding populations in the Adelaide region), Port Lincoln ring-necks and yellow-rumped thornbills. These birds would not exist in the area without the habitat provided on the course. The lakes also provide an added dimension and a number of water birds now reside there and breed in the fringing vegetation.

Also see essay underSouth Australia - World War I - Repatriation

General Notes

"Blocking a Boulevard" is in the Register,
12, 13, 15, 17 and 25 January 1921, pages 7d, 9h, 6g, 3g and 4f and
a swimming carnival of the Henley and Grange Amateur Swimming Club on
22 February 1922, page 9f.

The prickly pear menace is reported upon in the Register,
18 January 1926, page 12e.

The opening of foreshore improvements is reported in the Register,
29 March 1926, page 11b.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
3 April 1926, page 38.

"Bathers Beware - Sharks Caught at Grange" is in the Register,
29 March 1926, page 9g,
10 April 1926, page 9f,
The News,
29 March 1926, page 1d.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Fish and Other Sea Creatures.

Biographical details of Ronald G. Mitton are in the Register,
30 November 1926, page 10c.

Boring for oil near Estcourt House is reported in the Register,
27 April 1927, page 14d.
Also see South Australia - Mining - Petroleum.

A history of the public library is in The News,
1 September 1927, page 6f.

The opening of Northcote Home is reported in the Register,
7 and 11 June 1928, pages 15a and 18b.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
16 June 1928, page 36.

The 10th Henley to Grange swim is reported in the Advertiser,
20 March 1933, page 11c and
reminiscences of the formation of the cricket club in 1885 on
1 and 8 March 1934, pages 16i and 16h.

A photograph of a sandcastle competition is in the Observer,
25 December 1930, page 32,
Chronicle,
6 February 1936, page 33.

The establishment of the "Grange Cottages" by the Country Women's Association is reoported upon in the Advertiser,
7 April 1937, page 8f,
27 May1937, page 9c.
Also see Adelaide - Housing, Architecture and Ancillary Matters - Cottage Homes.

Grange - Schools and Churches

Also see South Australia - Education.

Its school opened in 1880. See Register,
3 April 1883, page 6d for background information on education in the district; also see
Express,
24 May 1884, page 2c,
Advertiser,
11 July 1929, page 15d.

"Back to Grange School" is in the Advertiser,
31 January 1936, page 25a,
27 March 1936, page 25a.
Photographs of a school's sand castle-building contest are in the Observer,
25 December 1930, page 27.
A photograph of a school concert is in the Chronicle,
11 July 1935, page 38.

"Grange State School - Epidemic of Sickness" is in The Mail,
9 July 1921, page 3a.

Information on Baptist Church services is in the Register,
24 July 1880, page 5c; also see
10 November 1880, page 5a and
17 February 1881, page 5b.

Information on the Church of St Agnes is in the Register,
1 August 1885, page 5c and
the laying of the foundation stone of the Anglican Church on
3 August 1885, page 5c-6e.
A Saint Agnes Church fair is reported in the Register,
22 November 1922, page 10h.

A public school speech day is reported in the Register,
24 December 1907, page 8g.

Information on a Methodist church is in the Register,
9 May 1911, page 3f.
"Methodism at Grange" is in the Advertiser,
5 February 1912, page 13d.

Grange - Sport

Also see South Australia - Sport - Archery.

Mr Blackler's harriers meeting is reported in the Advertiser,
31 May 1869, page 3c.

An "Obstruction to Hunting" is in the Register,
25 June 1869, page 3c.

A horse-race meeting is reported in the Register,
27 December 1882, page 6d; also see
31 December 1883, page 6g,
29, 30 and 31 December 1884, pages 7a, 7g and 7d,
31 December 1888, page 7c,
Advertiser,
31 January 1887, page 5e,
Express,
31 January 1887, page 2e,
Observer,
21 and 28 January 1888, pages 17c and 17c,
Chronicle,
5 January 1889, page 13b,
Express,
28 August 1891, page 4b,
Chronicle,
26 December 1891, page 14f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.

Under the heading "Cruelty to Animals" a 5 mile point-to-point steeplechase is described in the Register,
27 July 1905, page 7g; also see
29 August 1905, page 6g.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

A local sports day is reported in the Register,
4 January 1886, page 6h,
30 March 1896, page 7d.

A cricket match, Grange v Port Central, is reported in the Chronicle,
6 April 1889, page 15d; also see
Express,
23 April 1890, page 3g.
Historical information on the Grange Cricket Club is in the Register,
26 February 1908, page 4h,
20 January 1923, page 12d,
The News,
8 September 1926, page 5c,
"Old Grange Cricketers" on
27 January 1927, page 10e,
reminiscences of the formation of the cricket club in 1885 are in the Advertiser
1 and 8 March 1934, pages 16i and 16h.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Cricket - Miscellany.

The opening of the Grange Golf Club is reported in the Advertiser,
23 May 1928, page 14b; also see
23 March 1929, page 20e for information on the club's land tenure.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Golf.

"Water for Grange Links" is in The News,
30 March 1928, page 11c; also see
16 November 1928, page 11g,
20 May 1930, page 4b,
27 March 1931, page 13c.

A report of a golf club dance at Woodville is reported in the Observer,
4 May 1929, page 58d.
A photograph of the golf club's committee is in the Chronicle,
2 June 1928, page 25; also see
Observer,
2 June 1928, page 36,
14 August 1930, page 33 (female members).

A photograph of fishing in the Port Creek is in the Observer,
27 March 1926, page 34.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Fishing.

Photographs of the opening of the bowls' season are in the Observer,
29 October 1927, page 38.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Bowling.

The 10th Henley to Grange swim is reported in the Advertiser,
20 March 1933, page 11c .

Grange - Transport

Also see Adelaide - transport - Railways.

A proposed railway is discussed in the Observer,
19 October 1878, page 14b.
The turning of the first sod of the railway/tramway is reported in the Register,
8 and 14 March 1882, pages 2a (supp.) and 5a,
31 July 1882, page 5c;
its opening is reported on
2 October 1882 (supp.), page 1e; also see
31 October 1882 (supp.), page 1c,
1 February 1883, pages 5d-6d,
10 October 1892, page 9c,
Express,
6 October 1915, page 1e.

Reminiscences of "The Old Grange Railway" are in the Advertiser,
8 March 1936, page 21b.

The sale of the railway "to a few residents of the seaside township" is reported in the Register on
4 June 1887, page 5c and
a reopening ceremony on
7 June 1887, page 5b; also see
29 April 1891, page 5a,
27 April 1892, page 3h-5c,
5 and 19 May 1892, pages 7g and 3f,
17, 22, 23 and 24 September 1892, pages 1g (supp.), 6a, 6b and 1c (supp.),
10 October 1892, page 3c.

Also see Advertiser,
7 October 1892, page 3f,
Register,
11 August 1894, page 5a,
5 July 1902, page 3i,
8 January 1904, page 7h,
3 and 29 August 1905, pages 3i and 6g,
27 August 1906, page 5b,
6 September 1906, page 8i.

The extension of the line to the Grange jetty is reported in the Register on
16 May 1883, page 5a; also see
24 May 1883, page 4g,
1 May 1908, page 4f,
29 August 1908, page 14f (history of).

An extension of the Henley Beach tramline to Grange is reported in the Observer,
19 May 1883, page 38b.

A proposed railway to Brighton is discussed in the Advertiser,
24 February 1894, page 6g.

Grangeville

The first sale of allotments is reported in the Register, 13 April 1882, page 5b:

A number of shareholders in the Port Adelaide and Woodville Land Investment Company met by invitation at a luncheon... in honour of the first sale of the property of the Company at Grangeville... The Grange Railway Company intended to have a station on the property and trains were to be run to meet those dispatched on the Port line...

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